Q&A - PSLE English

[Sunnyyap]

Good morning Dean,


Thank you so much for your help. Im quite new to this Kiasu Parent’s forum. How to go about to "PM" you? Is it via this reply?

Thanks

Sunny

[Estéema]

Sunny,


Just tap on Dean’s name & it’ll lead to his profile, then tap on "Send PM" & u can start typing yr msg to him privately. Try it

[ThomasEnglish]

Repeat post

[ThomasEnglish]

Glad to have spotted the English compo title for the little ones. :imcool:


Hope your DD and DS did well too.

Move on, our little PSLE soldiers!

Good luck to one and all!


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[Fishermum]

Hi. Can someone advise which tense to use?

Father told me to set my alarm clock before I “went / go” to bed.
Thanks.

[D3-n]

Fishermum\" post_id=\"1903621\" time=\"1553311115\" user_id=\"162523:

Hi. Can someone advise which tense to use?
Father told me to set my alarm clock before I “went / go” to bed.
Thanks.

Hi,
Correct answer is...
Father told me to set my alarm clock before I went to bed.

[Fishermum]

:thankyou:

[pirate]

D3@n\" post_id=\"1903623\" time=\"1553311675\" user_id=\"124020:

Fishermum\" post_id=\"1903621\" time=\"1553311115\" user_id=\"162523:

Hi. Can someone advise which tense to use?
Father told me to set my alarm clock before I “went / go” to bed.
Thanks.

Hi,
Correct answer is...
Father told me to set my alarm clock before I went to bed.

Actually, both are correct, but the meaning is different. Use \"went\" if you mean to convey that father told you to set the alarm clock only on a specific occasion. Use \"go\" if father told you to do it generally. So, it depends on the context, ie rest of the passage.

[zac's mum]

pirate\" post_id=\"1903949\" time=\"1553653596\" user_id=\"66252:

D3@n\" post_id=\"1903623\" time=\"1553311675\" user_id=\"124020:

[quote=Fishermum post_id=1903621 time=1553311115 user_id=162523]Hi. Can someone advise which tense to use?
Father told me to set my alarm clock before I “went / go” to bed.
Thanks.

Hi,
Correct answer is...
Father told me to set my alarm clock before I went to bed.

Actually, both are correct, but the meaning is different. Use \"went\" if you mean to convey that father told you to set the alarm clock only on a specific occasion. Use \"go\" if father told you to do it generally. So, it depends on the context, ie rest of the passage.[/quote]I agree.

“Father told me to set my alarm clock before I went to bed” means a one-time occurrence. Maybe the next morning there’s a special event.

“Father told me to set my alarm clock before I go to bed” means eg his father gave him a new alarm clock and told him to set it every night before going to bed as a good habit.

[D3-n]

zac's mum\" post_id=\"1903976\" time=\"1553663999\" user_id=\"53606:[quote=\"zac's mum\" post_id=1903976 time=1553663999 user_id=53606]

pirate\" post_id=\"1903949\" time=\"1553653596\" user_id=\"66252:

Hi,
Correct answer is...
Father told me to set my alarm clock before I went to bed.

Actually, both are correct, but the meaning is different. Use \"went\" if you mean to convey that father told you to set the alarm clock only on a specific occasion. Use \"go\" if father told you to do it generally. So, it depends on the context, ie rest of the passage.

I agree.

“Father told me to set my alarm clock before I went to bed” means a one-time occurrence. Maybe the next morning there’s a special event.

“Father told me to set my alarm clock before I go to bed” means eg his father gave him a new alarm clock and told him to set it every night before going to bed as a good habit.[/quote]I'd go with this structure if it is not with reference to a particular occurrence.
“Father told me to set my alarm clock before going to bed”

The given sentence has no time indicator (\"last night\" or \"every night\") and is thus ambiguous as pointed out by pirate and zac's mum. But if I am sitting for an English examination with only the given information, the more sensible answer is still the past tense \"went\" as the question is probably to test our knowledge of tense consistency.